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Hera Mission is a planetary defense mission under development in the Space Safety and Security Program of the European Space Agency for launch in 2024 October. It will rendezvous in late 2026 December with the binary asteroid () Didymos and in particular its moon, Dimorphos, which will be impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft on 2022 September 26 as the first asteroid deflection test.
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| Nov 2, 2021 | NASA’s Ambitious Asteroid Defense Mission Set To Launch This Month | Artist's impression of DART approaching its target asteroid.NASA |
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What has the press written about Hera Mission?
Parsers VC has collected 2 articles mentioning Hera Mission, among them “NASA’s Ambitious Asteroid Defense Mission Set To Launch This Month” (Nov 2, 2021).
Is Hera Mission still active?
Yes, Hera Mission is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Dec 27, 2023.